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Studley – a parish and considerable village in Barlichway hundred, on the river Arrow, 4 miles north by west from Alcester. In 1803, the parochial rates were £930 6s. 3d. at 6s. 6d. in the pound. In 1821 it contained 257 houses, and 1338 inhabitants, many of whom are employed in manufacturing needles, fish-hooks, &c. In 1826 it was valued at £7088, and its population to the county rate was £29 10s. 8d. It is a curacy.

Dugdale states that “Within this parish are Mapleborrow, Skilts, Holt, and Padonyne. In the Conqueror’s time, the greater part was possessed by William fil Corbucionis whereunto belonged a furnace, yielding annually nineteen horse-loads of salt, and a wood extending to one mile in length, and half as much in breadth, all of which were value at £5” A priory was founded, by Peter Corbicon, (generally called Peter de Studley, from residing here) for canons regular of St. Augustus’s order. In the church are interred several of the Knottesford family, of whom we shall Speak in our account of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.